Fujin fam we have some boys love gaming news from indie devs Pop Elephant Studio! The team announced the release of their point-and-click BL psychological horror adventure, Dissolution of My Self on Steam! This dark adventure explores themes of exile, dependence, and the collapse of identity.
A prince who has lost his kingdom and everything else. His uncle and aide-de-camp, unable to leave him. In a cramped rented room abroad, click on objects and piece together a codependent relationship filled with brutality and endurance. Watch helplessness turn into violence, tenderness into torture.
About Dissolution of My Self
Power structures can dissolve. So can people.
Dissolution of My Self is a point-and-click psychological horror narrative game about exile, dependence, and the collapse of identity.
In a rented room, you will click on objects, read fragments of Hector’s memories, and help dismantle his identity.
Before you is an ordinary rented room.
And yet, for Hector, the prince of a fallen kingdom in exile, every seemingly ordinary everyday object inside it is evidence left behind by an intimate tyranny.
Can you blame him for becoming cruel? After all, all he has left is his uncle.
Today, he has decided to forget it all.
Your task is to investigate these objects, awaken the memories Hector refuses to face, and help him erase them.
He has to forget.
After all, remembering who you are can be far too painful.
Characters of Dissolution of My Self
Hector (CV: Netoru Irakusa)
“Your body is my only territory.”
An exiled prince of a fallen kingdom, trapped in a rented apartment far from home. After losing his identity, homeland, and future, he drags his dependence on Matvey—along with his resentment and love—into the depths of self-dissolution.
Matvey (CV: Tetsuto Furukawa)
“If you were nothing more than family to me, my child would be old enough to walk by now.”
Hector’s uncle and aide-de-camp, who fled with him under an alias after their kingdom fell. He now supports their life as an unlicensed electrician. Hector treats him as subject, uncle, caregiver, wife, and mother all at once.
Key Features
- Piece together your own path through dissolution: What you touch first is what Hector remembers first. Players choose the order of investigation. Exploration changes the order and rhythm of the story, not the ending. Single ending; no alternate routes.
- Unreliable narration through medication: Turning medication on or off changes how the same events are told and perceived. The narration cannot always be taken at face value.
- Explore memories inside a rented room: Investigate everyday objects such as windows, a television, dining chairs, and medicine bottles to trigger memories Hector refuses to face.
- Watch memories peel away one by one: Triggered objects gradually blur and lose their function as Hector gives up his past and his self.
- Psychological horror with no monsters: Oppression and unease come from a sealed space, exile, and a twisted codependent relationship. No jumpscares.
- A dark intimate relationship narrative: Uncle and nephew, sovereign and subject, “mommy” and his manchild, caretaker and patient.
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